The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-22
HISTORY OF THE WEEK,
In the United States Circuit Court

| AAA0lON1 OEs lftti WEIha
In the United States Circuit Court,
! at Richmond, Va, Judge Bond fined At
torney General Ayres $500 for bringing
suits under the law known as the ssEeNpon
Crusher" N dlsobedience OF his Injunction
order and committed him. IS The custody
| OF the Marshal until tho fine is paid He
also fined the ,Cpmtnonwealths Attorneys
| OF Fauquar and london Counties for disc
bey!ng the same order and committed them
until the fines are paid and the suits
| Drought are dismissed. Attorney General
A1yres and Commonwealth Attorney John
custody OF Deputy Marshals until 10 o'clock
at night, when they were taken to Jail.
Ihey decided to adopt that course rather
than have Deputy Marshals constantly
| uoggng their footsteps, as Judge Pond had
ordered that they should be in actual and
not constructive custody. They propose to
apply to the United States Supreme Court
Tor a writ OF habeas corpus. Gov. Lee Wis
tied them in Jail.
Judge Thomas G. Manning United
States Minister to Mexico died at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, after an
Illness OF week, though such termination
was not anticipated His malady was
obstruction of the bowels resulting in
preforatlon and peretonitis Judge
manning was about 50 years of age, of
Samoa p Gba6sg uee ab geeaty snS
Of high integrity. He was born in North
Carolina, and went to Louisiana about 1855.
be served in the Southern army until 1864
When he was appointed Q to the State
supreme court BENCH, and with a short
interval served until 1885, He was ap-
pointed Minister to Mexico by President
cleveland, and had resigned on account of
MS health, with which the climate of that
country did not agree. III
A dynamite explosion took place in
the Calloa custom house Peru, s. A. An
Inspector was examining boxes containing
metallic fuses and cartridges used for firing
dynamite in mines. By some carelessness
cartridge was roughly struck and ire
mendous explosion resulted. Twelve of
the persons present were blown into frag-
ments, three others died shortly afterward
and ~ others are expected to die, as frag-
ments of cartridges, caps and wood had
been blown into their flesh.
A monster saw mill engine boiler
exploded at Centerville, West Virginia
tearing everything loose in the neighbour
hood, killing three men and wrecked the
engine and mill completely. A man named
caught between the end of the boiler and
large log: A man named Kent Evans was
also manned Some time after these two
| were found man named Tompkins was
taken out from behind a pile of lumber and
soon died of his wounds.
A telegram from Ballinger, Texas,
states that Sergt. j. A. Brooks, of Company
F, State Rangers, and Sheriff Formell, ar
rested j. A. Newsome, charged with being
the Lone hlghwayman who several times
robbed the stage between Ballinger and San
Angelo. Rev. j. II. Sewely of San Angelo
wa was one OF the passengers on the stage at
the Tune OF one robbery. Being in the city
he without any hesitation declared the
prisoner to be the identical lone highway
! man.
At Smiths Ferry. Pa, S. Laughlin,
and daughter of Hoozstown, and Mrs.
Christy, aged 60, of Alliance, O., while
riding in buggy met with serious acct
dent. When near town the horse took
fright and made a sudden plunge throwing
Mrs. Christy out and over an embankment
among the rocks. She received injuries
from which she died in a few hours. Miss
Laughlin was badly injured. Mr.. Laughlin
was also injured, but not fatally.
Fire broke out in the laundry of the
| Northern Ohio Insane Hospital at Cleveland,
(Newburg) while $50 of the inmates were
enjoying their weekly dance. Smoke
poured furiously into the room and panic
ensued. Six Of the patients fell dead in the
room from suffocation and several others
were injured. The attendants and
physicians were very vigorous or the
fatalities would have been greater The
damage to property was $4,000.
At the City of Mexico forty Senators
were in their seats today at the third read
ing of the resolution to incorporate in the
constitution the amendment making the
President eligible for second term. After
brief discussion the resolution was passed
unanimously: It now goes to the House of
Deputies, which will undoubtedly pass it,
when it will be officially proclaimed.
For several days forest fires swept
over portions of four counties in the vicinity
Whole farms were consumed, strewing the
ground with the carcasses of animals,
houses, mills, vineyards, miles of timber
ana all kinds OF improvements were des-
troyed and scores of families rendered
homeless. The loss is immense.
The marriage of Miss Mollie Garfield,
daughter of the late President Garfield, and
j.. Stanley Brown, her fathers former
private secretary, which was to have been
celebrated at high noon Wednesday Oct.
~, in the little Disciple church at Mentor,
mas Deen postponed until later in the season.
The schooner Manzanella sunk in
Lake Eric off Brooton, N. Y. Capt. Ryan
who was left on board alone by his crew,
chung to pieces OF the wreckage the vessel
sunk, and was picked up two hours later
by some fisherman, who went to his rescue
In the face of almost certain death.
The British ship Monarch, Capt.
Corbett, from Manila Aug 80 for New
York, has been lost on Mindor Island. The,
captain and three of the crew, named
Drews, Bedford and Crupp, we drowned.
The remainder of the crew have arrived at
Manila. -= -. -.
Two men belonging to the night crew
of q saw and planning mill at Cygnet, Lucas
Co., Ohio, were burned up in fire that
destroyed the mill. Two other men were
badly injured. =
Scotland Yard detectives are report
ed to be at Denver to watch prominent
members of the land league in the West
and it is said league detectives are watch
ing the others.
The Coroner in his report on the
Kouts, Ind, accident places the response
cility on the train dispatcher and engineer
of the fast freight.
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